Balkans

and alpha one of another, they say it’s for the better rule and to take away control just to put more control. Europe only wanted one thing and it was a competition for colonies. Imperialism created tensions in Europe. It increased turmoil in the Balkan Area, leading other countries in competition for an empire including Great Britain, France, and Germany wanting to rule over…

Yuri Stoyanov had written about Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period and explains the parallels and contrasts between Islamic and Christian population in the Balkans. The article focuses on the similarity between heterodox Eastern Christian and Islamic heterodox and also put light on the cosmogony theory described in each religion. Cosmogony is basically a theory that explains the origin and development of the universe and includes solar system. A water…

the events in World War I, the national interest and idealism of war within Britain, the idealism and national interest of Germany was the leading cause of World War I, and the contradicting interests between the countries for the control of the Balkans. The cause of war is ultimately dominated by the ideas of nationalism. Nationalism influenced each country’s national interests and became the rope that pulled Britain into the Great War, this war would lead to towering consequences. The upheld…

First Balkan War in 1912. The problem originated, when Ottoman Turks crossed the Black Sea straits and that resulted into uniting the Balkan states into the ‘Balkan Union,’ that agreed to defeat the Ottoman Turkey. Bulgaria and Serbia ruled the Balkan Union, who aspired to conquer Macedonia because Macedonia was already at war with Italy, thus it was weak. Later, Greece and Montenegro advanced against Turkey with military forces. Within weeks, there was destruction of Turks forces in Balkan…

World War I For most people, History is a boring subject. No body these day’s cares about which president did this and that. However, when it comes to World War everyone is curious and entertained, but not all of them know the story behind this event that marked the history books forever. How did the war begin? How did the U.S. get involved? What impact did it had? Leading causes to the war The Colonialist policy of the great powers: the imperialist countries had done with the territorial…

that “the next great European war will probably come out of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” (Massie, p. 82) At the time, he was referring to the aftermath of the Serbo-Bulgarian war, which managed, in a series of resonating blows, to shatter the Ottoman Empire’s tenuous grasp on the Balkans and splinter the League of Three Empires. Over the next forty years, the ever-fluid situation in the Balkans ebbed and flowed, but never strayed far from a point of complete catastrophe. The…

early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire, which included the Balkan region, was in rapid decline. Crisis in the Balkans started when Austro-Hungary annexed Bosnia to the empire. The Serbs were against this decision because they wanted Bosnia to become part of Greater Serbia. The reason is because Bosnia has a lot of Slavic people living there that should part of Serbia. The Austrian Annexation by taking Bosnia and Herzegovina created a crisis in the Balkans. The aftermath of this annexation lead, Gavrilo…

informed and lusting after adventure (Balkan, 31), after hearing rumors of a king who washed off a fresh coat of gold dust everyday (Balkan, 21). People’s belief in myths can change others behavior and perpetuate the tales. Indian Chief Delicola told the Spaniards what they wanted to hear, that there was a “gleaming villages of gold to the east” because he heard that they were stretching and torturing Indians “until they told ‘the truth’ about El Dorado” (Balkan, 49-50). A woman Slater writes…

and German questions remained unanswered. Second, the July Crisis of 1914, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. And third, there was a long lasting rivalry between the Great Powers. The Eastern Question mostly concerned the Balkans and its unsteadiness during the 19th and early 20th century. Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Serbia all had long-standing problems during this time. Russia wanted to increase their influence and expand in the…

The first major war since the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most devastating and unjustifiable wars of all time. The Great War of 1914 began in Sarajevo with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist group, the Narodna Odbrana. The war began as a small dispute between two countries but soon spread through the entirety of Europe. The expansion was largely due to alliances made prior to the war. These alliances were made due to fear, revenge,…